Guns on campus: the great debate
A debate that seems to pop up each time a school shooting occurs is back in the news this week, thanks to a group of UW students. The raging topic of discussion? Whether students should be allowed to carry guns on college campuses.
A piece from the P-I details a group of students who are wearing empty gun holsters around campus to make a political statement:
As much as we like to think of a school as a safe zone, it's not safe," said Brian Yip, who heads up the UW's chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.
I couldn't agree more with Yip, whose group has 25,000 members and counting nationwide.
While most college campuses say "no way" to the proposal, the idea that not allowing guns on campus is a victory for students safety seems to have gone by the wayside in recent years. It's become clear that folks who want to carry guns on to campuses will, and the results will be devastating if everyone is prepared.
Perhaps the best example to highlight a need to pack heat on campus comes, ironically, from Virginia. In 2002, a disgruntled student at Appalachian Law School killed the dean, a professor, and a student. When he exited the building, presumably looking for more victims, two other students were waiting with guns (which they had retrieved from their cars) and managed to take him down.
If responsible and sane students (with the proper licenses and permits of course) had been able to stay strapped on campus at Virginia Tech, one has to believe the rampage there would have been less devastating. If anything could ruffle the feathers of a coward like Seung-Hui Cho, it's a taste of his own medicine.
The argument may have held little bearing in the years before V-Tech and the February massacre at Northern Illinois University, as college campus shootings were up until that point a uncommon trend. But, as they so often tend to do, times have changed. If we continue operating under the backwards assumption that preventing responsible citizens from carrying guns is good for society, we shouldn't be surprised when the school shootings continue to have devastating impacts.
It's like the old saying goes: "outlaw guns, and only outlaws will carry them." On a college campus, that makes racking up a body count as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
Parents will be spending a grand and a half for an Austrian 9mm that has a USB socket.
If there were ever a city where USB guns became popular, Seattle would most certainly be that place.
Handguns are for restaurants, or being jammed up at lights in Hunts Point, generally, if you need a piece it is because you haven't nailed down your street,
if you get to Milwaukee or somewhere and some impossibly fat Italian is talking to you about respect, it is because, respect is him knowing you might blow up his fucking house.
You can't do that if you meet them first in a back room. Nobody will ever know where you went.
How they built Las Vegas when they spend half their time in clubs talking about whacking each other is a mystery I've never understood.
Real crime is Southie, we just wanna steal stuff. We even steal crap from the cops, the wisies need to have a vote to decide on a restaurant for lunch.
They're scary when they cab you, they are mean, everything they say they can do to you is true, they don't BS about bathtubs, they're like fuckin Aztecs
and who is this guy they've always gotta call. I think it is the weather number on the beach. It is no wonder Cuba fucked them out, they probably had the line to Miami permanently busy.
If you go to Milwaukee, go to Chicago first, and never buy window or door frames from an Italian, you'll pay extra to get them to fit. Dat I nose.
Guns, it ain't worth hurtin pepole for money, the only thing you need in the front of your pants is your dick,
if you are puutting a team together with gear, it is because you've already lost something and you're sendin a message to tell people that there are consequences.
If you lose somebody, always find him, even if he is an assehole, because it'll keep happening you you don't. Otherwise wrap & forget them in oil. You only need a metal bar to make money.
Tazia